From Canaletto to Kenni-letto

The 81-year-old from County Durham spent three years painting the 5ft x 7ft canvas - which he's dubbed his Kenni-letto - an almost exact copy of the Italian painter's The Bucintoro returning to the Molo on Ascension Day after the Ceremony of Wedding the Adriatic, painted around the 1730s.

He said: "I was standing in front of the Canaletto and I thought 'I'll have a go at doing one of those'".

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Here are the tributes left at the scene after Kyle Hull, 15, died in a fall at Darlington Cattle Mart in Clifton Road on Tuesday. The teenager was being treated in hospital, where he was in a coma, but died yesterday.

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Free church weddings could be scrapped

Free church weddings for the poorest couples in County Durham could be scrapped after a huge increase in fees charged by registrars.

It's because the only cost they have to bear - the registrar's fee - is being increased by Durham County Council from £86 to £415.

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Minister David Taylor and his wife Barbara have offered free church weddings at St Hild and St Helen's Church in Dawdon for six years and they're concerned about the new charges which they say are "shocking".